For the first time, a list of cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants with the highest rate of obese or overweight inhabitants has just been unveiled. The company Withings, which markets various connected health instruments (blood pressure monitors, personal scales, heart rate monitors, etc.) has just launched a vast study called “Municipal overload operation“.
Obesity rhymes with poverty
The company has created a ranking of cities in France based on the average rate of inhabitants affected by overweight. But to better understand this classification, it also took into account various criteria that explain why Argenteuil is the city most affected by obesity and Aix-en-Provence the least affected.
Thus, the number of sports equipment available per 1000 inhabitants, the number of doctors, the level of public health expenditure or the average household income and the proportion of graduates from higher education have been taken into account. The ranking thus shows that the median income of a municipality is correlated with the rate of overweight and obesity. And that the higher the number of doctors per 100 inhabitants is in a city, the less there are problems of overweight and obesity.
On the other hand, there is no obvious link between the rate of sports equipment and the phenomenon of overweight and obesity. Neither link between the percentage of households with at least one car and the percentage of people suffering from overweight.
Overweight: the 5 cities most affected by obesity
Argenteuil, Le Havre, Orléans, Metz and Tours are the cities most affected by obesity with an overweight population rate of over 50%.
At the bottom of the ranking, we find Le Mans, Boulogne-Billancourt, Besançon, Mulhouse and Aix-en-Provence with an overweight population rate of less than 38%. To find out what is the outcome of your city, Click here.
